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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driver
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The USB case is quite different because your latency is very tightly
bounded, your dead device state is rigidly defined, and your loss of
device is accurately and immediately signalled.

Quite different.

Alan